Posted by Rob Honeycombe on 19 August 2009
I don’t catch the bus. I could use it for trips around the inner city for work meetings, but any time I’ve thought of it the timings are confusing, miss one and the next is 30 minutes later, the frequency changes regularly and the fares are all over the shop. Too hard, at least for a workday where appointment times are critical.
The Brisbane City Council has now confirmed that once they start next year the new CityGlider buses will run every 10 minutes, 18 hours a day. It’ll be every 5 minutes in peak times and 24 hours a day over the weekend.
Even I can work this one out.
Travelling from the Ferry stop at West End’s Orleigh Park it’ll run down Montague Road (making that evolving patch feel more connected), through Mollison Street behind Coles, and along South Brisbane’s Melbourne Street.
With tickets issued before you board and extra doors opening to let more people on, the stops will be fast. And we’ll pay one fare (probably $2.50) regardless of how far you travel.
Across Victoria Bridge, through the CBD and Valley, finishing at Teneriffe’s Ferry terminal. Simple, regular, long hours and linking some of our major entertainment, study and work locations. This will be a massive improvement in moving people around the inner city.
Of course the same route and service but under our streets in a Brisbane subway would be even better!
Tags: Brisbane City Council, Brisbane subway, Brisbane traffic, CityGlider Brisbane, Fortitude Valley Brisbane, Melbourne Street South Brisbane, Mollison Street South Brisbane, Montague Road Brisbane, Orleigh Park West End Brisbane, Teneriffe Brisbane, Victoria Bridge Brisbane
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Posted by Rob Honeycombe on 8 May 2008
If it’s good enough for Kevin Rudd and Cate Blanchett! Bees Nees are hosting our own “Vision of 2020″. Focussing on West End, South Brisbane and Highgate Hill the May 19th 2008 seminar will take a look at the local property market in 2020. New apartments are replacing industrial uses at a growing rate and BRW Magazine recently tagged the area “the star performer of Australia’s urban renewal precincts”. So how will the area’s housing change over the next 12 years?
We’ve asked two well-respected property experts to share their views. Independent market analyst Michael Matusik knows the market inside out and he’s not afraid to share an opinion or two. Michael has a solid understanding of what buyers and tenants of the future will want. West End resident Andrew Crawford has another perspective as a townplanner and former manager of our Urban Renewal Taskforce. He’s been at the driving wheel of major land-use changes in the Newstead/Teneriffe area and knows the process well.
The seminar is on Monday May 19th 2008 from 6.30 to 8pm at the Convention Centre in South Bank. If you’d like us to send you a free double pass just click to email and quote “FREE-BEE 03″. We’d love to have you along as our guests.
Tags: Andrew Crawford Brisbane, Michael Matusik, Newstead Brisbane, Teneriffe Brisbane, urban renewal Brisbane
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Posted by admin on 5 March 2008
The 1990’s saw one of Brisbane’s least appealing areas transformed into the hip, sought-after and downright expensive suburb that is today’s Teneriffe. Industrial, grafittied and last on most home buyer’s lists for many years before, a co-ordinated program of changing land uses opened the way for sexy apartments and a population influx. Now this week’s BRW Magazine nominates our own West End as “the star performer of Australia’s urban renewal precincts”, with redevelopment of its industrial uses opening up a bright new future for both West End and South Brisbane.
Locals have seen this coming for years but with picking the next centre for capital gain now a national hobby it’s no surprise BRW have spotted this patch. Much of the area being transformed is within 20-30 minutes walk of the CBD and surrounded by the river on a relatively quiet peninsula.
Brisbane City Council recently released a local planning draft for a corner of South Brisbane where 6 storey height limits are about to give way to 25 storey commercial and residential towers. A vision for the year 2020 it forecasts 6,000 new residents and 14,000 extra office workers in this tiny pocket of less than 100 acres of land. The speed of change might just make previous urban renewal hotspots seem sleepy by comparison.
Tags: Brisbane City Council, Teneriffe Brisbane, urban renewal Brisbane
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